No one had noticed: the noise of the wind and
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And then a voice above him said, "You all right, Sergeant?"
The soldier's daemon was growling and nuzzling at the sergeant's, who had fallen into a
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Hauling, wrestling, heaving, Lord Roke finally snapped open the key ring, and then he had to lift six other keys out of the way before the black-taped one was free. Any second now they'd get the light back on, but even in the half-dark they could hardly miss two men lying unconscious ...
And
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"Didn't hear a thing...” "Are they breathing?"
Then the floodlight, secure again, snapped on once more. Lord Roke was caught in the open, as clear as a fox
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A second later she had unlocked the handcuffs and lowered them silently to the ground. Lord Roke leapt
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"Where's the bomb?" he said, close to her ear. "They've just begun to unload it. It's the big crate on the ground over there. I can't do anything till they take it out, and even then...”
"All right," he said, "run. Hide yourself. I'll stay here and watch. Run!"